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Dec. 23rd, 2004 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kamomilI was just reading David Byrne's blog. I hadn't realized he was still touring so actively. I could get lost reading tour journals. I liked reading about how they went to the West Edmonton mall, how ordinary it appears. It doesn't look big when you walk in its doors. It kind of has ugly terrazzo floors.
I switched the language of my livejournal menus over to Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic) and fought with that for awhile. Yes, I Ctrl-V'd the Language Select page URL so I could undo it, though I know the Irish for English: Bearla. It was pretty frustrating, but when you mouse over the menus, the little pop up window tells you what you are mousing over even though the button is not in English. I found out that "eolas" means about, "cairde" is Friends, and "faisneis" is information. I had never realized the difference between eolas and faisneis before, though I knew they were both information. Look at all that Gaeilge I learned in about a half hour. But there is a problem with Leo's feed and it posts the same message about 10 times, so I wanted to remove it from my Friends list and my lack of understanding of Irish was going to get me in trouble so I switched the menus back to English.
I am going to switch it back to Irish, because I learned way more by having livejournal in Irish than I did having google set to be in irish. Well, "Cuardach Google" is search Google, and "ghreasan" is apparently web.
Today I gave $10 to an old guy who was going through garbage cans at Union Station, for food, I assume. I wanted to give him enough for a whole meal. God love him, I had never seen anyone do that at Union Station before.
Quickly, someone give me a reason, why I should remain pleasantly sociable over this holiday season, with all the joy of children and spouses surrounding me, of which I still have none?
I switched the language of my livejournal menus over to Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic) and fought with that for awhile. Yes, I Ctrl-V'd the Language Select page URL so I could undo it, though I know the Irish for English: Bearla. It was pretty frustrating, but when you mouse over the menus, the little pop up window tells you what you are mousing over even though the button is not in English. I found out that "eolas" means about, "cairde" is Friends, and "faisneis" is information. I had never realized the difference between eolas and faisneis before, though I knew they were both information. Look at all that Gaeilge I learned in about a half hour. But there is a problem with Leo's feed and it posts the same message about 10 times, so I wanted to remove it from my Friends list and my lack of understanding of Irish was going to get me in trouble so I switched the menus back to English.
I am going to switch it back to Irish, because I learned way more by having livejournal in Irish than I did having google set to be in irish. Well, "Cuardach Google" is search Google, and "ghreasan" is apparently web.
Today I gave $10 to an old guy who was going through garbage cans at Union Station, for food, I assume. I wanted to give him enough for a whole meal. God love him, I had never seen anyone do that at Union Station before.
Quickly, someone give me a reason, why I should remain pleasantly sociable over this holiday season, with all the joy of children and spouses surrounding me, of which I still have none?
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*you know my name, look up my number* :P
Date: 2004-12-24 03:29 pm (UTC)Once you stop yourself from looking and expecting, it'll happen when you least expect it. In all honesty, that's the most vaild piece of advice I give...as it's stood true to me twice.
I can't say I know exactly what you're going through, but I know it's not fun to be alone--please realize, you're really not though. You've got family who misses you and loves you and you have friends who feel the same.
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Date: 2004-12-24 09:45 pm (UTC)